En total, se produjeron y se vendieron alrededor de doscientas unidades a 500 dólares la unidad, pero el éxito fue tal que no pudieron dar abasto con tanta demanda. Las características del Apple I eran limitadas por el poco dinero del que disponían Jobs y Wozniak. De hecho, para construir el prototipo, Jobs tuvo que vender su furgoneta y Woz su calculadora programable HP.
Pre-foundation
Before Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple, he was an electronics hacker. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were known as outcasts while the were in high school. As a kid Stephen Wozniak would become so engrossed in mathematical ponderings his mother would have to shake him to bring him back to reality. By 1975, he was working at Hewlett-Packard and helping his friend Steve Jobs design videogames for Atari. Wozniak had been buying computer time on a variety of minicomputers hosted by Call Computer, a time-sharing firm run by Alex Kamradt. The computer terminals available at that time were primarily paper-based; thermal printers like the Texas Instruments Silent 700 were state of the art at the time. Wozniak had seen a 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine on how to build your own computer terminal. Using off-the-shelf parts, Wozniak designed the Computer Conversor, a 24-line by 40-column, uppercase-only video teletype that he could use to log on to the minicomputers at Call Computer. Alex Kamradt commissioned the design and sold a small number of them through his firm.
[[Archivo:Applecomputerheadquarters.jpg|thumb|Oficinas centrales de Apple]]
